Speculation The hysterical and annoying, but traditional, totally unfounded summer 2021 rumours thread

[mabrah]

While we’re here, this is not how people talk, ever

What, do you mean with hyphens? You're right. Or maybe they're silent. Like apostrophes.

 

[TommyK]

I think it means his agent is trying to get a pay day

 

[alex]

Leicester and Leeds are interested in signing Turkey midfielder Orkun Kokcu after Feyenoord cut the 20-year-old's asking price to £10m. (La Razon via Sun)

 

[mabrah]

Caglar's new friend? Given Under isn't going to make the grade, we need another Turk. Boy, do we wanna hang on to Soyuncu - enough to buy a friend for him.

(Actually, in all seriousness, it wouldn't surprise me if such a thing has been a factor with signings generally. The language barrier can be a problem not just on the pitch but also in the isolation one feels generally.... young kid in a new country, speaking a new language... what was it Ian Rush once, supposedly, said of Italy?)

 

[Skitzo]

Caglar's new friend? Given Under isn't going to make the grade, we need another Turk. Boy, do we wanna hang on to Soyuncu - enough to buy a friend for him.

(Actually, in all seriousness, it wouldn't surprise me if such a thing has been a factor with signings generally. The language barrier can be a problem not just on the pitch but also in the isolation one feels generally.... young kid in a new country, speaking a new language... what was it Ian Rush once, supposedly, said of Italy?)

IIRC Rush said "it was like being in another country" or something equally dense

 

[mabrah]

IIRC Rush said "it was like being in another country" or something equally dense

Yep, something like that. He claims he didn't say that and it was someone taking the piss... but then went on to say pretty much the same thing in different words.

 

[Feriol]

I didn’t actually say Italy was “like living in a foreign country”. No one has ever seen a direct quote from me saying that. I’m blaming Kenny Dalglish. When he re-signed me, a reporter asked me, “Why have you come back?” Kenny quipped, “He said it was like playing in a foreign country”. He’s got a lot to answer for!"

Ian Rush: I never said Italy "was like a foreign country" – Dalglish has a lot to answer for!

Liverpool’s record scorer on turning down United, worshipping Latchford and that Juve quote...

www.fourfourtwo.com

 

[mabrah]

Agents must be starting to ramp up activities, or clubs starting their smoke screens, or papers wanting yet more click revenue, because we seem to be linked with any number of players at the moment. Some that defy explanation.

 

[Graz]

Agents must be starting to ramp up activities, or clubs starting their smoke screens, or papers wanting yet more click revenue, because we seem to be linked with any number of players at the moment. Some that defy explanation.

Like who?

I've seen Thauvin linked again. Didn't realise he's out of contract this summer. We've been interested for a while (or rumoured to be anyway), so this is definitely one I could see happening - it's a position we've been after and a free transfer for a player that age seems much more like our style than spending big money on someone who's not likely to have a big resale value.

 

[mabrah]

or rumoured to be anyway

Bingo!

I can't be arsed checking my spelling but, yes, he (Thauvin), Cautinho, Edouard, some Swedish wunderkind, a Danish defender at Rangers... and that's off the top of my head. I'm sure there are a few I've left out.

 

[Skitzo]

one of the Red Tops said we have offered Thauvin £57k a week

 

[jb5000]

That's far from crazy money these days

 

[TommyK]

Yeah not too much of a risk at 57K a week.

 

[Miles Away]

Honestly, seems low. I suspect he would expect more, but post-COVID who knows what the wages market looks like.

 

[Payne74]

Maybe it's because he's crap and were the only club showing interest

 

[Skitzo]

Honestly, seems low. I suspect he would expect more, but post-COVID who knows what the wages market looks like.

he'd get a massive signing on fee too being a bosman transfer

 

[Matt_B]

Maybe it's because he's crap and were the only club showing interest

Worked out like that with Evans as well.

 

[Payne74]

Worked out like that with Evans as well.

Evans wasn't a free transfer.

 

[Miles Away]

Maybe it's because he's crap and were the only club showing interest

I think he will generate significant interest across Europe.

 

[Matt_B]

Evans wasn't a free transfer.

Compared to what he was valued at the year before, he may as well have been. My main point was that nobody else wanted him.